disparaging

  • 11disparaging — adjective disparaging remarks criticize someone or something and show that you do not think they are very good disparagingly adverb …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 12disparaging — UK [dɪˈspærɪdʒɪŋ] / US [dɪˈsperɪdʒɪŋ] adjective showing that you have no respect for someone or something disparaging comments …

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  • 13disparaging — [dɪˈspærɪdʒɪŋ] adj showing that you have no respect for someone or something disparaging comments[/ex] …

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  • 14disparaging — disparage ► VERB ▪ regard or represent as being of little worth; scorn. DERIVATIVES disparagement noun disparaging adjective. ORIGIN Old French desparagier marry someone of unequal rank , from Latin par equal …

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  • 15disparaging — adjective expressive of low opinion derogatory comments disparaging remarks about the new house • Syn: ↑derogative, ↑derogatory • Similar to: ↑uncomplimentary • Derivationally related forms …

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  • 16disparaging copy — /dɪsˌpærədʒɪŋ kɒpi/, knocking copy / nɒkɪŋ ˌkɒpi/ noun advertising copy which is critical of another company’s products ● Their disparaging copy has given them a bad name in the industry …

    Marketing dictionary in english

  • 17disparaging — adjective see disparage …

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  • 18disparaging — Synonyms and related words: abusive, aweless, back biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 19disparaging — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Tending or intending to belittle: deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, low, pejorative, slighting, uncomplimentary. See PRAISE …

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  • 20disparaging — dis·par·ag·ing || dɪ spærɪdʒɪŋ adj. scornful, derogating, belittling, slanderous dis·par·age || dɪ spærɪdÊ’ v. lower in rank by words or actions, malign, depreciate, belittle …

    English contemporary dictionary